Chapter 6 : Lost in the Past

Chapter 6: Lost in the Past

"You mean your heart was with Faith and even Alison could tell you weren't invested in your relationship with her."

Dek waited to respond to Norman. "It was never like that with Alison and I. She knew where I stood with Faith. After Ethan died during that stint before the twin towers fell and I was brought in to take over Faith's handling, everyone was so on edge. Even Faith stopped writing. It was heartbreaking to watch her. Ethan and I were pretty close, so I was aware of Faith before Franklin tasked me to take over her protection and be her Watcher. I was halfway in love with her then. " 

"How did you get past the psychological tests. No one in their right mind would put you in charge of her handling if they knew you had feelings for her."

Norman was used to Dek's spy talk. His twin brother, Kevin was Franklin's adopted son.  It had taken years for Norman to track Kevin down. Technically, Faith was his sister, they had yet to discover if it was a blood tie or a soul tie. Not many knew that Faith had been captured in college and many memories extracted from her, including the memories of Kevin, Ethan and The Legacy. 

Dek continued. "Gia was in that accident with Ethan and an experimental chip was used to help her brain heal from the damage. Unfortunately, for her, it saved her memories but drastically changed her personality.  They were all freaked about her so passing that test hadn't been difficult."

After you handed her over to another Watcher when you retired, why didn't you approach her then? Start a real friendship, then relationship? I have seen you do that so many times with perfect strangers."

Dek sighed, "She wasn't ready."

"Says who? The man who has been in love with her from day one? You let that newbie take over her handling. He didn't know what he was dealing with -- you did."

Norman looked so much like Dek most people assumed they were related. They actually weren't st all but had grown up in an unusual community of very secretive people who had a hidden agenda. They were people of high morals that didn't fit into what the world would see as normal.  But their ultimate agenda was to save the world, make the world a better place and kick demons, minions and devils out of people's lives. 

Del could tell Faith's worth the moment he met her. It was a meeting the Black Council had stolen the memory of. Most of her Legacy experience was gone from her mind, but she periodically liked to write in her journal about her spy guys. 

She was such a young kid when he first met her. She has come in with her brother Kevin to live in the Fairchild mansion. No one was sure if they were Franklin's love children or orphans he had saved from unforeseen circumstances. Franklin was pretty secretive about everything concerning his immediate family. 

Dek, Ethan and Kevin used to jokingly call the mansion Franklin's Legacy or Stone House. Kevin was almost ten years older than Faith and she basically stayed to herself not requiring other people to entertain her. 

Many people in The Legacy had some sort of psychic ability. Faith had a legion of angels constantly surrounding her and she was just used to speaking to her angelic friends in her mind. The main problem with Faith's ability was that a legion of demons stood just beyond those angels constantly threatening her life and mental stability. 

If a stranger walked into the room at the moment they would naturally assume Dek and Norman were related. They were both thin but fit and had similarly styled salt and pepper hair. Both had been dark haired in youth and as most people in their late fifties and early sixties, their hair had whitened or lightened in time with each of their life’s struggles. The two of them, Dek and Norman great up in the same unusual very secretive community of people who had a hidden agenda. The residents were of high morals that didn’t always fit into what the world would see as normal. This groups’s ultimate agenda was to save the world, aka make the world a better place kicking the demons and devils out of people’s lives.

Dek could tell Faith’s worth the moment he met her. She was such a young kid back then as she came into their community with her brother Kevin to live in the Fairchild mansion. They jokingly called it The Legacy or Stone House. The thing definitely looked like a castle. Kevin was over ten years older than Faith and even from day one she pretty much just stayed to herself. The reason being, she not only had a legion of angels hovering around her but unfortunately also a legion of demons looking to push her down and use her as an example. And because of this, her life wasn’t always the easiest but Dek made it a mission in his life to watch out for her.

Men always hovered around the outskirts of Faith’s life but none ever seemed to want to commit to her. Her dad, Henry, was old school Legacy who was Franklin’s right hand man. Franklin was the mostly unseen head of the Legacy and the Knights Foundation. few saw him in person but all knew of him and his ultimate power. Franklin encouraged Dek to keep an eye on Faith early on. The man could sense a part of his heart that would never really let Faith go and Franklin counted on Dek being faithful to his adopted daughter.

Franklin had recently assured Dek God was ready to release Faith’s lost memories back to her. He definitely wasn’t sure how that would play out. The Council had been the one to extract them using her old boyfriend who had been ushered into the Council by the Deep State and his own dark legacy family ties. Her old boyfriend was still a money man at heart but the was looking to redeem himself and Dek just couldn’t trust the guy.

Dek wasn’t sure why Franklin was letting the man back into Faith’s life. It would definitely be a shock when he stood on stage for the first time and announced Jim Williams as their new pastor. He wasn’t to come in town for awhile but knowing the man as he did, he feared Jim would make a surprise appearance sooner or later. He was currently finishing up a project in his old church and was coming in town to take care of his ailing parents. Dek wasn’t sure he liked the idea she could find a bit of common ground with a man who had shoved her out in the cold when she was a kid.